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Man the Friday is almost gone and I forgot to ask the big Q of the week... Whasup?

Going to play on the Bug that I'm caging for mr. customer. We decided to cut the roof off and go full off road with it. Suspension is done, transaxle is re located and mounted. So about the only thing left to do is cage it.

What are you guys doing this weekend?

More than likely I/We will be shopping and cleaning to get ready for Thanksgiving and, hopefully, after the rain blows thru, I can do an oil change and some serious trans pan measurements on the FARlane but that's not looking too likely at the moment.

Have a great weekend Y'all,
Em

I was going to work on the three projects that I've been hamering away at all summer.. but... it seems my uncle found a beam under the farm house that is giving up. I guess we can't really complain, it's been in there since 1790 sumpthin..

When folks say "they don't build'em like they used to." They have no real idea how bad things could be assembled "back then".

1790? I have no idea where you are going to find square nails to fix it. Might want to put it off for awhile.

I generally have the Christmas lights up well before Thanksgiving, on one of the last warm days as the holidays approach but we were gone so that's not done yet. Got about 1/2 done with the house today before the rain hit, getting to a stopping point in the drizzle, so will be looking for opportunities to finish the house, and get the barn lights in place before Thursday. Our traditional lighting is dark thirty on Thanksgiving Day, into January a few days. Need to get back into the barn on the '32, but my incentive gets a bit weak when the ambient is below freezing....

Originally Posted by M.T.

1790? I have no idea where you are going to find square nails to fix it. Might want to put it off for awhile.

Sadly, the mill that was still producing them (cut nails) was closed maybe 10 years back. They were still running the water powered machines and had a full line of cut nails and rosehead nails etc. , but it all became to expensive and no one wanted to help maintain the works and the dam needed to be removed and rebuilt...

It's about 25 - 30 minutes from me and they do a run once a year, they open up the place and have tours and the local old gas buffs show up with their motors / mills/ "stuff".... so I'm sure to be there!

Originally Posted by 34_40

When folks say "they don't build'em like they used to." They have no real idea how bad things could be assembled "back then".

Hey Mike, these come with an unconditional, money back, life time guarantee.

Spent most of early Friday taking the wood structure out of the '32 sedan roof. A few months back a guy came up from Portland to buy some '33 parts from me and saw the sedan body on the cart with the sorry looking roof wood sagging and broken in places. He said something along the lines of "I make wood structure for old Fords, are you going to replace that?" Turns out he was looking for some original wood to use as patterns and made a good offer to exchange part of the fab for my old wood. I told him that when I got the body mounted I'd let him know and we'd do what we needed to do. Well, the body has been mounted for a couple months but the rest of life got in the way so it took til now for our schedules to line up. Since some of it was in such bad shape we spent a fair bit of time mocking the broken pieces to form the correct arch, and overall shape so we could get good measurements and pictures. Reassembly shouldn't be too tough now that I've gone through that whole process.
The rest of this weekend will be spent organizing the parts so we can know where we are to keep on keepin' on. Probably swap the engine that's in it now for one of the other flatheads on a stand as it's more complete and will give me a better weight load for suspension setup. Otherwise, nothing much going on car wise.

Big plans to clean and rearrange my garage and get ready to do winter projects----so far it's still in the just getting ready to go fast stage.......

Originally Posted by MelloYello

Hey Mike, these come with an unconditional, money back, life time guarantee.

OOOooo.. I'd love to see a bunch of steel like that under there.. Instead I've got hand hewn half trees with the bark still on it.

When I asked my uncle how high I got to push it up to... he answered, push it back to about 1900 or so!

Originally Posted by 34_40

OOOooo.. I'd love to see a bunch of steel like that under there.. Instead I've got hand hewn half trees with the bark still on it. When I asked my uncle how high I got to push it up to... he answered, push it back to about 1900 or so!

FYI, there's a limit to how far you should take Old Skool Retro yanno?

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Big plans to clean and rearrange my garage and get ready to do winter projects----so far it's still in the just getting ready to go fast stage.......

Maybe by spring, Dave? It'll be warmer....

Originally Posted by MelloYello

FYI, there's a limit to how far you should take Old Skool Retro yanno?

You remember that I am the one who doesn't do "ol skool retro" right??? I'm not even aware of any friends who'd consider such a thing!

If they'd let me I would've had the house raised and a whole new foundation put under it. But everyone always says I go to the extreme.. but they ain't under it jacking it up!

Man o Man you guys have some hard lives... Cold weather, rebuilding 200+ year old houses, tractors and bailers in ditches, etc. sounds like a hand full? Im all bum'ed out because I cant get anyone to go camping this weekend as it might rain. I have desert fever really bad.

I'll consider myself justified if I get a big antique mirror that Mrs. Rr has been jonesin' about for a long time hung. Since I have a really hard time climbing ladders anymore, it will take me longer than the agerage glacier to get the wall marked and the hangers in place, then to get the mirror - weighs about fifty pounds - onto the hangers. Oh fun, fun, and joy.

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